Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-10
sEvss. NOTES AID coaamEnrs.

NEWS. NOTES AND coaaRaGnTo.
 Jacob Sharpe is seriously i'll.
 A Siamese prince and suite are visit ing Washington
 Forest fires are destroying lots of val uable timber in Wisconsin.
 San Francisco murdesers have con- menced to kill each other in jail
 A line of steamers are now run by the Canada Pacific railroad to China.
 Alex Goldenson. the San Francisco murderer. attempted to commit suicide recently.
 Canadian Knights of Labor talk of seceeding from the general assembly of the order.
 Renewed efforts are being made to obtain funds for the construction of the Eads ship railway.
 A man named Mooney attempted to blow up the steamer Queen at New York, few days ago.
 An American syndicate proposes to irrigate and open up the Yaqui river val ley, in Mexico. to settlement.
 Kentucky has gone democraic by about 7o.ooo. Its usual democratlc majority heretofore has bedn oo,ooo.
 General Greeley, chief of the signal service, is entertaining Mrs. Cleveland at his New Bedford summer residence.
 Cincinnati has raised the $I. 1000 guarantee fund for the centennial cele. bration of that city and exposition next year.
 In the town of Long Beach. near Los Angeles. there are by actual count twen- ty-foar real estate agents plying theil vocation.
 It is stated that 6o,ooo head of cattle will leave New Mexico for the northern country and the slaughter houses within the next sixty days.
 s. A. Manlove, a former editor of the Tucson Citszen, and an able writer, died recently at Delaware, small town Tn Ohio. of consumption.
 
 Justice Craig, of the Illinois supreme court in private conversation. said the supreme court would not grant a new trial 10 the Chicago anarchists.
 Simon Cameron, the great Pennsyl- vania stateman, at the age of 90 years is gong to Europe to study the political features of that part of the world.
 Four cents mile is all that it costs for rioing on the Santa Fe henceforth This is bIg item, and one which will prove great benefit to New Mexico.
 Over ten thousand deaths from chol- era, have occurred in Chiii from January to June. and tte government has ex- pended over a million dollars fighting the epidemic.
 A. w. Kdgore. ot Layfayette, Ind, left of chewing tobacco, taking up dried breaches as a substitute. A piece of peach stuck in his throat and killed him. Mir. Kilgore had better have stuck to tobacco.
 A tract of ,hity-six acres of land, partly within the city limits of Visalia. has sold for $3so per acre. the largest price that has ever been paid for land in TuIare county, California
 The United States pays every year for cigars and cigarettes $IS6, 500, 900, and $eo, 900 for tobacco smoked in pipes. To this t adds the cost of chew ing tobacco, $5o,ooo,ooo, bring the en- tire tobacco bill for the year up to Sz56, ,oco.o 900.
 Terrence V. Powderly says that if he should leave his present office sat the head of the Knights of Labor he would devote himself to literary work. The two great subjects of education and temperance would receive his entire attention. 
 Miss Belle DeLong. apopular young lady of Council Bluffs, ls., left her home last sinter, to become member of the Army. Her relatives mourned her as dead until last week, when she re- tnrned to her family, dissusted with her experience.
 The coinage of the mint during July was $I,o6o, 900, of which $6oo. 900 was standard silver dollars. The limited coinage was due to the fact that the mint a, Philadelphia was closed daring the month for repairs.
 A crazy Iiishman undertook to blow up the British steamer Queen, at Chi cago, the other day, with dynamite bomb. He declared, when arrested, that he was member of an organlza- tion whose object was to destroy every vessel carrying the British flag.
 The governor of Illinois has received ] report from the state board of live ,tock commissioners that they have I,Soo head of diseased ,tock since the recent outbreak of pleuro- No further danger is ap- from the disease spreading. Oaklahoma boomers are again gather ng near Arkansas City, intending to march into the territory the 10th in tant and take possession of Oklahoma. Two more companies of United State roops went into the territory to-day to
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